NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

--- Sterling Hughes <sterling at bumblebury.com> wrote:
> 
> > >  
> > > Am I going the right way about this, or is there a better way?
> > 
> > This is the right way; aside from using cURL :)  Or you could use real
> > sockets (as opposed to streams, of which fsockopen() is) if you have a
> lot of
> > time to kill.
> > 
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php
> > 
> 
> three notes:
> 
> 1) Use cURL, any PHP solution you create will be 1/5 the speed, at best.
> 2) You can't do ssl handshakes, etc. in PHP

I know very little of what's involved with the SSL process, but out of
curiosity, why can't you do homegrown SSL in PHP yourself?  Binary safety
issues and immature sockets?

> 3) cURL and the cURL extension will be bundled as of php5
> 
> -Sterling
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." 
>     - Henry Ford
>